WEARABLE FUTURES Exhibition Goes to UP Fine Arts Gallery

After its successful exhibition run in March 2023 at the UP Open University 28th Founding Anniversary in Los Baños, Wearable Futures is slated to re-exhibit from 18 April until 29 April 2023 at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the UP Fine Arts Gallery in Diliman, Quezon City.

The Wearable Futures exhibition is organized by the FICS-run BUKAS Lab and has two major components:

• Undergraduate student outputs from the Wearable Futures Hackathon, a 12-week-long hybrid learning experience collaboratively created with and for undergraduate students at UPOU. During the course, students explored wearable technology, e-textiles, speculative design, and futures thinking. The exhibit features five wearable prototypes exploring information security, physical safety, human movement, farming, and climate change, by sixteen students of the Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies program: Hannah Beraquit, Arvic Angelo B. Cruz, Joshua Albert C. Dema-ala, Airiel Licca Depante, Sapphire Marilag M. Dulorzo, Vernice Bethel C. Gica, Michelle Lado. Faye Anjeli S. Lopez. Laryze Lozano, Patricia Martillano, Pauliana Jamie R. Nicolas, Wrynz Dale Sumande, Rajmyrr S. Suva, Myles Lorraine Tuason, Rel Daryle Dane R. Valle, and Marciano C. Virola III.
• Works-in-progress by the 2022 Fellows of the Emerging Futurist Residency, a research and creative program focused on supporting and nurturing exploration of the future by multidisciplinary teams. The residency program  aims to deconstruct dominant paradigms about the future and develops alternative models through a combination of critical inquiry and hands-on experimentation. The 2022 Fellows––fashion designer-architect JJ Aquino, researcher-creative producer Franchesca Casauay, and fashion designer-illustrator Renz Reyes–explored various aspects of the Terno, arguably the Philippines’ most iconic national dress. With Casauay guiding the overall creative production, Aquino and Reyes reimagine and reshape the Terno’s materiality, construction, and sociocultural function, experimenting on how a Terno might look, move, and come to be in the near future.

 The initiative is led by FICS Dean Dr. Diego Maranan, with support from research assistants Jerome Suplemento and Lucky Vengua, in partnership with Space Ecologies Art and Design (SEADS) and the MetaFuturism Lab.

For inquiries, kindly contact [email protected].

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Exhibition opening:

18 Apr 2023 // 2:00PM–5:00PM

Regular exhibition run:

19 Apr–29 Apr 2023 // 10:00AM-4:00PM

*Closed on Sun & Mon

Venue:

Multi-Purpose Hall, UP Fine Arts Gallery,

Diliman, Quezon City

Contributed by the UPOU Faculty of Information and Communication Studies